July and August 2021, the usual time to enjoy summer, brought plenty of misfortune to the province of Matanzas due to the spread of COVID-19’s Delta strain. However, things are quite different there today.

 The AZCUBA Sugar Group, the Cuban Association of Sugar Technicians and the Cuban Institute of Research on Sugarcane Derivatives announce the 16th International Congress on Sugar and Sugarcane Derivatives, Diversification 2022, to be held from June 20 to 24.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel thanked the continuous messages of congratulations, good wishes, commitment and support to Cuba on the occasion of the celebration of the 63rd anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution.
On Twitter, he expressed that Cuba is grateful for these tokens of that solidarity.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Special Education in Cuba, PM Manuel Marrero stressed today on Twitter that the development of this form of education is one of the great achievements of the Revolution and congratulated all those who dedicate their lives to this worthy work.

Jose Angel Portal Miranda, Cuban minister of public health, congratulated today on Twitter the family doctors and nurses in the country, on the occasion of the 38th anniversary of the founding of that program.

The work of Special Education professionals in Cuba was highlighted today by the minister of the sector, Ena Elsa Velazquez Cobiella, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of this educational system in the country.

One of the projections for this year of the Institute of Geophysics and Astronomy (IGA) is the increase of its scientific results that allow closing the research cycle to offer technological packages and commercial services to the national and international market.
The commercial negotiations include astro-tourism, promoted in closed places, such as observatories and planetariums, although it takes advantage of natural and cultural resources in open spaces in free areas of light pollution, which combines scientific knowledge of astronomy, culture and nature.

The preparation of a new Atlas, based on geotechnologies, is one of the projects carried out with the participation of several institutions in the province of Camaguey, the first to offer a regional cartographic work in the late 1980s.

Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel expressed his condolences for the death of the outstanding actress Gina Cabrera, founder of national television, who died at 93.

The resident representative of the UN Development Program (UNDP) in Cuba Maribel Gutierrez stressed in this central province the national efforts to safeguard the people’s health in a scenario marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, despite economic shortages.

This December 31, another solidarity shipment arrived in Cuba from Nicaragua, with the purpose of contributing to the COVID-19 confrontation in the island-nation.

 The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, sent on Friday a message on the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the New Year, which we transmit in full below:

Russia’s Vladimir Putin congratulated Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, Army General Raul Castro and the people of Cuba for the 63rd anniversary of the triumph of the Socialist Revolution to be marked January 1st.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero toured Havana’s William Soler Pediatric Cardiology Hospital and Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute and stressed their roles and performance.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez celebrated today on his Twitter account the authorization for emergency use that Mexico granted to the Cuban COVID-19 vaccine Abdala, which he described as very good news for both countries, an opportunity for the demonstrably effective immunogen to be introduced in the world, and a recognition of the talent and dedication of Cuban scientists.